By John Chambers
Sois sage dear heart & set my teachings down
If you do not your world will be undone
& heaven itself turn to one grinning skull.1
These lines appear in the poem “The Will,” by James Merrill (1926-1995), arguably the greatest American poet of the latter half of the twentieth century. Critics rarely mention that for most of his life Merrill was deeply involved with discarnate entities on a Ouija board, and that the poet’s 550-page masterpiece, The Changing Light at … [Read more...]